April 11, 2012

Better Homes and Gardens will attempt to diagnose your decorating style with this little quiz. My result was "Country French." No way, man. Maybe it's because I said I wanted to go to Paris. I had fun selecting a shoe (totally those striped flats), but I'd sell every one of those chairs at a garage sale immediately. Good luck!

Yikes those chairs really were terrible. I ended up picking which one was the least hideous or attention grabbing lol. I got Country French, too - I also picked Paris. I'll just take it as a compliment and move on. :)

I took the red chair (not my chair but butter than the others) and I took the seaside because I love the North Sea - Traditional style, puh, no, never. All that baroque things they show in the "tutorial-pdf": aaargh, help!

LOL. It's funny how many of my answers were based on what I hated least rather than what I wanted more. I ended up with Polished Casual, which is probably slightly more casual than my furniture suggests and slightly more neutral than my bright orange chair and accessories. But based on what I'm hearing as the other choices, I'm guessing that it was probably the closest.

Way too funny. I tested "french country" here. Then I went over to Sproost and had a 3 way tie (Wine Country, Arts & Crafts and Rustic Revival) And I do love all three! lol Had a fun time ladies thanks!

This selection leaned way too far frilly in every category for me. I live in a concrete house and practice a near-minimalist design ethic I call "zen modern" - a combination of oriental understatement and Frank Lloyd Wright, with long and low rectangular lines and monolithic expanses of warm wood, glass, and stone. There wasn't one single modern or oriental design element to pick in the whole quiz...the Craftsman style house was probably the closest. I live in Texas, so both boots and flats are a go-to, but certainly not my "style statement." The chairs were beyond thrift store ugly. But then I only own three chairs that aren't dining or desk chairs - two red brown Ikea Poangs with black leather seats and a vast wood-framed recliner I was given that takes up acres but is the most comfortable seat in the world for working on a laptop. For extra seating, I have giant Indonesian floor pillows. I guess the concept of floor pillows would have given an infarction to the folks who designed that quiz. ;o)

Appaling! I got country French too, and it seems to be not only picking Paris for a destination but picking toile among those horrible chair choices.Let's get one thing straight: country French is a totally American style. No French person would be caught dead in it, whether Parisian or provincial.

As far as the chairs, the most comfy one for me after a long, hard day at work, was the overstuffed one. I did not look at color or pattern, that was not what they asked. I don't care for dogs, so I picked the one I felt would be the most mellow. My taste came up "Cottage", which is exactly how I have decorated, only I did not know there was a name for my style other than"Economical Comfort". I enjoy cute, silly quizzes like this. They are just for fun.

Oh my - those chairs are awful! I got french country too .. I don't think that's my style. I hate patterned fabrics unless it's bright, bold colors in a sleek design, and in accessories (like pillows - not a chair). Oh well! I learned nothing about myself except that it was hard to choose between Paris and seaside, but eventually went with seaside.

I chose the same things, and I also didn't like any of the chairs... :) I tried skipping the dog part altogether because no dog "fits my life style" (not to mention they were all large dogs... what the heck!).